Not sure if you could start with this two part episode from season 3/4, but this is TNG that still holds up for me. One of the darker storylines, also one of the strongest female characters (Shelby) in the series. The ship graveyard scene still gives me shivers.
I suppose you have to start though with a pitcher of margaritas and the Wrath of Khan, preferably on VHS.
It seems to me that what the article points out is that we are moving beyond the phone call impersonation to get a password (Mitnick style) to more sophisticated exploitations of trust relationships and social engineering attacks. We are looking at attacks that can get by many power users - am I going to take the time to question requests and attachments from any of the 20,000+ identities I have in my client datatbase and address book whose requests I must handle same business day and who I must assume are to be trusted? Probably not. Will my IT staff have the resources and the time to properly configure countermeasures? I sure hope so...
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Not sure if you could start with this two part episode from season 3/4, but this is TNG that still holds up for me. One of the darker storylines, also one of the strongest female characters (Shelby) in the series. The ship graveyard scene still gives me shivers. I suppose you have to start though with a pitcher of margaritas and the Wrath of Khan, preferably on VHS.
It seems to me that what the article points out is that we are moving beyond the phone call impersonation to get a password (Mitnick style) to more sophisticated exploitations of trust relationships and social engineering attacks. We are looking at attacks that can get by many power users - am I going to take the time to question requests and attachments from any of the 20,000+ identities I have in my client datatbase and address book whose requests I must handle same business day and who I must assume are to be trusted? Probably not. Will my IT staff have the resources and the time to properly configure countermeasures? I sure hope so...